Blog Entries August 2007
by Barbara Dehn -
30th August 2007
“What are you going to do?” My friend smiled as she shrugged a little and held up her hands. “It is what it is.” We were talking about her little eight-month-old, Jack, who only likes to nurse in a dark and quiet room without any distractions.
Jack just happens to live in a household that includes a...
by Kate Kahn -
27th August 2007
I have a friend who I truly admire for her mothering skills and her stamina. She is the mother of 4 children with another on the way. Her children range in age from 6 to 13. This woman is always on the go. She never stops. Well, rarely anyway. When she's not shuttling them to and from their activities, she's taking them to museums, to the pool...
by Barbara Dehn -
23rd August 2007
I just read that New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer signed legislation that makes it easier for working moms to continue to provide breastmilk for their babies.
The legislation requires employers to provide uncompensated time, and make a reasonable effort to provide private space for women to express milk or nurse their children for...
by Kate Kahn -
21st August 2007
There's an interesting article on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' website that highlights some dramatic problems in our healthcare system. It cites a new study published in the August issue of Pediatrics which clearly shows more education is needed to help new...
by Barbara Dehn -
16th August 2007
I was talking to a friend yesterday who is a maternity nurse, working with new moms on the postpartum unit of a local hospital. She was telling me about her experiences helping moms feed their babies. She told me about a patient who didn’t want to breastfeed because of some emotional discomfort she felt about using her...
by Kate Kahn -
13th August 2007
Well, the numbers are in and, not surprisingly, show that most people in general and women in particular, don't agree with Mayor Bloomberg and his health administration's decision to ban formula from bags given to new moms at New York hospitals. The poll was conducted for iVillage. The results? 54 percent of people ( men and women) take issue...
by Kate Kahn -
9th August 2007
According to a new report by the CDC the number of women breastfeeding their babies is the highest it's ever been since the government has been tracking it. The report says 74 percent of American women who have given birth since 2004 breastfed their children for at least some period of time. That's basically reaching the government's target of...
by Barbara Dehn -
5th August 2007
When NYC banned the diaper bags last week for their public hospitals, I thought about the moms who will invariably slip through the cracks. I was reminded of a patient of mine who is happily breastfeeding her baby, but who had lots of difficulty in the first few days.
On her first night at home, her baby was wailing and couldn...
by Kate Kahn -
1st August 2007
New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and his Health officials, who arbitrarily decided to ban formula samples from goodie bags handed out to new moms at public hospitals, are getting some heat for that decision. And rightly so. It seems, like me, thousands of others are annoyed that our government would make a decision for me that I'm fully capable...
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